Job 13:5
O that you would keep perfectly silent, || And it would be to you for wisdom.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Oh that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
In Context
4And yet, you [are] forgers of falsehood, || Physicians of nothing—all of you,
6Please hear my argument, || And attend to the pleadings of my lips,
Cross References
Job 11:3Your boastings make men keep silent, || You scorn, and none is causing blushing!
Job 16:3Is there an end to words of wind? Or what emboldens you that you answer?
Job 19:2“Until when do you afflict my soul, || And bruise me with words?
Job 32:1And these three men cease from answering Job, for he [is] righteous in his own eyes,
Proverbs 17:28Even a fool keeping silence is reckoned wise, || He who is shutting his lips [seems] intelligent!
Amos 5:13Therefore the wise is silent at that time, || For it [is] an evil time.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →